An alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he's taken hostage by terrorists where his indifference to their threats to kill him makes news headlines.

Stephen Dorff
as Cliff Spab

Reese Witherspoon
as Wendy Pfister

Jake Busey
as Morrow Streeter

Joey Lauren Adams
as Monica Dice

Pamela Gidley
as Janet Streeter

David Barry Gray
as Scott Spab

Jack Noseworthy
as Joe Dice

Richard Portnow
as Gerald Parsley

Tobey Maguire
as Al

Natasha Gregson Wagner
as Kristen